Want to make your own DIY Advent Calendar? Check out our FREE Santa beard advent calendar printable!
Christmas is fast approaching, and we’ve been planning lots of fun festive activities on the run up to the big day, that can be done safely, and on a budget this December.
Advent calendars have changed HUGELY since I was a little girl; and I have just published my round up of the best Advent Calendars for kids in 2020, however, I am also VERY aware that not everyone will be able to afford to buy an advent this December, and for that reason, I’ve got your back! Introducing the FREE to download Santa beard advent calendar printable which you can print out and create at home with your kids. Each day of December, simply add another little part of Santa’s beard, gradually bringing his face to life over the course of Advent.
All you will need is:
- Our Santa beard advent calendar printable
- Some cotton wool buds
- A jar or container to store them
- A pink, red or other colour circle, pom pom or button for Santa’s nose
- Glue or (ideally) double sided sticky tape or sticky pads.
- A printer to print out your Santa template
First up, download your FREE Santa / Father Christmas PRINTABLE here:
Also your (optional) jar / container wrapper
Santas Beard Advent Jar Wrapper
The Santa printable prints 2 copies of the Father Christmas, so you can have a spare or one for siblings too.
The Santa’s Beard Advent Calendar comes with 24 numbered circles (with the numbers mixed up at random).
Each day, ask children to add a Pom Pom / Cotton Wool ball to Santa’s Beard between the 1st and 24th December, sticking it to the apporpriate circle of his beard. When they get to Christmas Day, let them add a final red or pink pom pom / sticker for Santa’s nose.
We chose to put all of our cotton wool balls into a little jar, which Neve loved pulling out the cotton wool balls from ready to stick them on.
How you stick the wool on is entirely up to you, but double sided sticky tape works really well. Parents can stick a sticky tab to each morning and then the child can pop the cotton wool in place.
As the days of advent go by, Santa’s beard slowly but surely comes to life!
Neve got a bit carried away here and stuck on the nose before we had finished the beard, but you get the general idea! (Who ever said to work with animals or kids was right!)
This would make a super fun advent calendar on a budget, or just a fun festive craft activity to do with the kids on the run up to Christmas.
Hope you enjoy our.Santa beard advent calendar!
Lucy x
